Jesse Ezell's Radio Weblog

So many moves, so little time

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 03:10:47 GMT

I'm joining the Exodus. Update your links: http://dotnetweblogs.com/Jezell/

Road Rage on the Information Super Highway

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:47:22 GMT

"Later on, in jail, George Doughty said he realized that shooting his laptop computer was wrong but that it seemed like a good idea at the time. Doughty, who runs a bar/restaurant in Lafayette, Colorado, shot the varmint after it crashed once too often, then hung it on the wall like a moose head. He was jailed on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment (there were patrons present) and the prohibited use of weapons. "It's sort of funny, because everyone always threatens their computers," said police Lt. Rick Bashor, moments before his own computer froze at headquarters."

[Wired]

Burning Money

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:39:26 GMT

"This site about origami boulder very fine wadded paper artwork. I make artwork for you and you buy it now. I am famous Internet artist. You find my site didn't you?
Site is real. You order and you really get origami boulder artwork with special card to display at your home or workplace. Make good unforgettable gift for friends!
You buy wadded paper boulder and keep it. Or send many to your friends as very nice gift that no one ever forget! I include special card with every order that explain work of art. You buy 20, I send you free extra one with special message from me!"
[Origami Boulder Company]

Amazing what kind of interesting stuff you can waste your money on thanks to the power of the almightly internet.

InfoPath

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:50:41 GMT

"I definitly think that InfoPath is not for end-users, but I can imagine end-users trying to be developers when InfoPath is release."
[RMorell]

Around here, we call those guys VB developers :-).

VS 2003 AutoImplement

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 03:58:41 GMT

Found the coolest VS 2003 feature today. When you type the name of and interface (C#) that a class implements, such as:

public class MyClass : MyInterface

You can press TAB and the interface stubs will automatically be added to your class. Nice! No more "sync class view, sync class view, open member lists, right click, select implement interface," just one click and you are done.

Macromedia Redesign

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:57:12 GMT

Macromedia updated their site today... front page is loaded with advertisements about using Macromedia for user experience. Funny thing is that the page is sooooo slow that the user experience is 10x worse than the experience was before they converted everything to flash.

New Office beta to launch next week

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:56:26 GMT

"Microsoft plans to officially release Office 2003 Beta 2 on Monday, about three weeks after an accidental posting of the software."

[ZDNET]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:24:36 GMT

"So, once you carry out that experiment, how much does a typical life turn out to be worth? Professors Dora Costa of MIT and Matthew Kahn of Tufts point out that it depends on exactly when you asked the question. As incomes have risen, so has the value of life. The increase is more than proportional: A 10 percent rise in income is generally associated with about a 15 percent rise in the value of a life. Between 1940 and 1980, according to Costa and Kahn, the value of a life increased from about $1 million 1990 dollars to between $4 million and $5 million 1990 dollars."

[Is Your Life Worth $10 Million]

An interesting article on Slate about how much a given life is "worth."

New Episode

Sun, 02 Mar 2003 03:20:37 GMT

"Scott Hanselman is currently Chief Architect at eFinance enabler Corillian Corporation. He works on .NET integration with Corillian's Windows-based Voyager eFinance Platform that is currently running Online Banking at 5 of the top 10 U.S. Banks. He has a decade of experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and most recently C# and .NET."

[DotNetRocks]

A long time coming, but the next episode is up...

SqlXml

Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:37:53 GMT

I ran across the SQLXML classes for the .NET framework while searching for an answer to a posting over on MSDN today. This is awesome (can't believe I missed it). Need to dig into it a bit more, but it is definately cool, automatic DiffGram creation, XPath support in Sql, etc.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/824/msdncompositedoc.xml

70% Code Reduction in ASP.NET 2.0

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:58:43 GMT

"The ASP.NET team is working hard on the 2.0 features right now. But, don't expect any public bits released for quite some time - *at least* 4 months or more would be my guess. I'm sure more information (and featured rumors too) will be leaked as we get closer to the summer.

Let me also clarify Rob's statement on the 70% less code. One of the teams *goals* is to reduce the code needed in v2.0 by 70% over v1.0. Rob did not promise or gaurantee that they would hit that goal.
Is this a lofty Goal? Yes!!
Will they be able to achieve it? Only time will tell. However, this isn't the first lofty goal they've set for themsleves and they have a track record of delivering - their achievements in v1.0 is proof of that.
Personally, I think a 25% - 35% code reduction would be awesome!
-Stephen Swienton
ASP.NET Forums Moderator"
[ASP.NET Forums]

Generics and DataSpaces...?

Mom and Pop

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:13:09 GMT

A bit of controversy regarding VB programmers is circulating right now in blog land... I have to agree with Tim on this one though... Generally, there are a lot of mom-and-pop VB programmers out there who only have jobs because the general population is so ignorant when it comes to the IT industry and coding practices. Even Alan Cooper (the "father of VB") agrees with that.

MSDN TV

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:00:00 GMT

"MSDN TV is a short bi-weekly show featuring useful technology tips and insights from the behind-the-scenes folks at Microsoft. Tune in to stay in-the-know with MSDN TV."
[MSDN]

Yet another show from MS...but unlike the rest, it's bi-weekly. MSDN has really been putting out a lot more audio and video recently, which is really nice to see. Articles are great, but some times multimedia can get the point across a lot better.

P2P SDK for XP

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:21:16 GMT

"The new Windows XP Peer-to-Peer SDK and the related Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Update will help developers create advanced networking applications. The SDK provides documentation and sample code while the XP Update adds advanced networking support to the XP client, including enhanced IPv6 support, API’s for Peer-to-Peer name resolution, network graphing, grouping, and identity management. This SDK will help developers to create decentralized applications that harness the collective power of edge of the network PC’s."

[Download from Microsoft]

So now, you can make your own Kazaa in less than an hour. Cool deal.